WJRO has launched a new database of Warsaw properties to help survivors and their heirs identify their property so they can reactivate their claims before the Polish government takes final possession. Please click here to find out some more details.[more...]

The team behind the 'My Voice' project has been named as Volunteer Team of the Year in the sixth Jewish Telegraph and Jewish Volunteering Network Manchester Jewish Community Award. Please click here to read the full story.[link]

The Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR) is delighted to announce that it unveiled a special commemorative plaque in honour of the industrialist Lord Frank Schon on Thursday 29 September at the house in Whitehaven, Cumbria where he and his family lived.[more...]

A special seminar to commemorate AJR's 75th annversary is taking place on 14th and 15th September at JW3 in West Hampstead.

As part of the their 75th anniversary celebrations The Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR) is delighted to announce that it unveiled a special commemorative plaque in honour of Sir Rudolf Bing at Glyndebourne on Wednesday 17 August. Sir Rudolf was General Manager at Glyndebourne between 1936 and 1949.

The Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR) was delighted to mark its 75th anniversary with a reception at the Wiener Library where AJR Chairman Andrew Kaufman announced the installation of a plaque in honour of Hans and Eva Reichmann.

The AJR Outreach and Event Department welcomed Mike Freer MP for Finchley and Golders Green together with Sir Bernard Zissman, Former Mayor of Birmingham, to a lunch and lively discussion on Brexit. The benefits of voting In or Out were discussed at length and our members had many different views. We thank Mike Freer and Sir Bernard Zissman for their time.

The Kindertransport Organisation, part of The Association of Jewish Refugees, were delighted to welcome Dame Esther Rantzen DBE, to their monthly lunch where she spoke to 75 Kinder about the life of Sir Nicholas Winton, and the comparison between the current refugee crisis and their plight over 77 years ago. Members were delighted to also hear her family history, the history of Childline and her new project SIlverline to help those who are on their own and need some companionship.[more...]

AJR Chief Executive, Michael Newman, announced a ground-breaking PhD scholarship programme at a memorial seminar held in honour of AJR member Clemens N. Nathan on 4th May 2016 at the Athenaeum Club, Pall Mall, London.

Tony Grenville’s lecture at the British Academy on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the Thank-Offering to Britain Fellowship, on 10 November 2015, was filmed and can now be seen on the Academy’s Youtube channel (click here).

The text of the lecture is available on the AJR’s website (click here) and on the British Academy’s website and click here to download an edited version of the lecture from the February 2016 issue (number 27) of the British Academy Review.

The Association of Jewish Refugees was delighted to unveil a special commemorative plaque in memory of Rabbi Dr Leo Baeck, the scholar, teacher and theologian who was a prominent leader of Progressive Judaism.

It is with great pride that the Association of Jewish Refugees will be publishing the 70th anniversary edition of its monthly AJR Journal in January with a series of articles from its extensive archive.[more...]

Following a campaign of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), the AJR welcomes the European Union’s announcement that the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will include a specific reference to the Holocaust.

The Association of Jewish Refugees was delighted to receive confirmation from the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, the Rt Hon David Gauke MP, that the one-time payments made from the Child Survivor Fund (CSF) will be exempt from income tax, capital gains tax and inheritances tax.[more...]

Following the landmark $60m agreement reached towards the end of last year, the US State Department has begun accepting applications for compensation in recognition of the role played by the French railways (SNCF) in the deportation of Jews during the Holocaust.[more...]

The AJR is proud to be a partner European Shoah Legacy Institute (ESLI), which co-operates with governments, non-governmental organizations, and independent experts to seek international solutions to the restitution of immovable property, art, Judaica, and Jewish cultural assets stolen by the Nazis; the provision of adequate social welfare support for Holocaust survivors and other victims of Nazism; and the promotion of Holocaust education, research, and remembrance.[more...]

The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) describes itself as an 'intergovernmental body whose purpose is to place political and social leaders' support behind the need for Holocaust education, remembrance and research both nationally and internationally. IHRA has taken a leading role in commemorative activity across the world since its founding in 1998. It operates a rotating Chairmanship, which last year was held by Britain and in March passed to the Hungarian government.[more...]

The AJR is proud to be part of the UK delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), which brings together governments and non-governmental organisations to raise awareness of the Holocaust and place political and social leaders' support behind the need for Holocaust education, remembrance, and research both nationally and internationally.[more...]

It gives us great pleasure to invite you – and your friends, family and colleagues – to view the AJR’s Facebook page where we will post details of our events and photos as well as articles of interest.[more...]

The AJR distributes funds allocated to the UK by the Claims Conference following its negotiations with, amongst others, the German and Austrian governments for social and welfare programmes for Holocaust survivors and refugees.[more...]